Brooks dusts off “Spaceballs” for TV cartoon G4 has ordered 13 episodes to debut next fall. Insert funny Spaceballs quote here.
Archive for September, 2006
September21
September20
Frak Party
Frak Party “Everyone we’ve ever met who’s into Battlestar is pretty frak’n cool. So we thought, why not get all these people together and have one big cool nationwide party when the new season Premieres on October 6th.” The party hats slay me. (via Boing Boing)
September19
The Real World Ikea
“Five Strangers Who Were Picked To Live In Ikea And To Have Their Lives Taped… but they should have told Ikea.” (via Netscape)
September18
September17
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Banksy “Barely Legal”
Banksy has gotten a lot of press for his Paris Hilton CD stunt, but a lot of the works at this weekend’s “Barely Legal” show are far more interesting. (via Waxy.org)
September16
10 Most Beautiful Cars of All Time
10 Most Beautiful Cars of All Time I’m not much of a car person, but… wow.
September15
Violated by Bears Man
From Channel 101 and The Van Gogh-Goghs. PNSFW.
September14
Widow Rented Rotary Phone for 42 Years
Widow Rented Rotary Phone for 42 Years “A widow rented a rotary dial telephone for 42 years, paying what her family calculates as more than $14,000 for a now outdated phone.” 750,000 people in the US are still leasing their phones from AT&T—if they’re all paying the $29.10 Mrs. Strogen was, that’s more than $260 million a year for the phone company. (via Netscape)
September13
Lonelygirl15: The Creators Revealed
Lonelygirl15: The Creators Revealed The LA Times has the scoop, for real this time. Bree and Daniel are the creations of “Miles Beckett, 28, a Web-obsessed medical school dropout, Mesh Flinders, 26, a screenwriter, and Greg Goodfried, a 27-year-old lawyer.” They haven’t officially revealed the identity of the actress who plays Bree, but internet stalkers sleuths discovered yesterday that she is Jessica Rose, a 19-year-old actress from New Zealand. It’s almost disappointing to see the truth laid bare, but I’m still waiting in eager anticipation of the next episode.
Update: The New York Times also has coverage which includes more details on Rose’s “unveiling,” plus this tidbit: “The whole project appears to be the early serialized version of what eventually will become a movie.”
September12
Wikipedia: Mysterious people
Wikipedia: Mysterious people Including the Person from Porlock, Homer, Rasputin, Princess Caraboo, and, of course, lonelygirl15.
September11
A new Nightmare soundtrack
A new Nightmare soundtrack Disney is giving Nightmare Before Christmas a Halloween 2006 re-release, but what’s more interesting is that they’re producing a new soundtrack album featuring covers of the film’s original songs by Fall Out Boy, Marilyn Manson, Fiona Apple, Panic! At The Disco, and others. In stores October 24.
Lonelygirl15 is damn good TV
Okay, I’ll admit it: I’m really getting into Lonelygirl15. Not the girl, but the saga or, if you prefer, the brand. At this point I have no doubt that it’s fiction, but what’s significant to me is that up until people started calling it a hoax, I didn’t really have any interest in it. Now that its “hoaxiness” seems a foregone conclusion (though I still don’t think the “confession” is authentic), I find it much more interesting. Someone out there is creating a fairly interesting and entertaining video serial exclusively for the internet, anonymously.† And they’ve amassed a huge audience, relatively speaking. I think we’re at the tipping point where more people believe that “Bree” and “Daniel” are actors than don’t, and though a lot of viewers have undoubtedly abandoned the “show,” I think it’s gained a lot, like me, who find this sort of thing fascinating.
I don’t want to get too deep into the philosophical/
†When I say anonymously, I don’t mean to suggest that I think LG15’s creators don’t intend to reveal themselves eventually. I believe their goal is to reap immense benefits, both financial and professional, from this affair. If they’re not producing an MTV original series by this time next year, I’ll be surprised.
R. Stevens interviewed
R Stevens interviewed The Diesel Sweeties creator recently inked a deal with United Feature Syndicate to put his brilliant comics in newspapers across the country, and now he’s doing the interview circuit. I am impressed more than surprised by his self-deprecating humbleness and obvious business (and media) savvy. He’ll be putting out seven strips a week, plus web-only stuff, and will retain an impressive amount of rights.
Fleen: How are you going to preserve your distinctive pixel style at the very small sizes of newspaper comics?
Stevens: I ordered some undiluted, raw pixels from Hokkaido, Japan. They are very expensive, but you can’t put a price tag on the squarest items known to man. I do not advise snorting them.
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